Quotes About Concealment

Visible being is natural...But language, art, history gravitate around the invisible (ideality).

O que constitui um enigma é a sua ligação, é o que está entre elas – é o facto de eu ver as coisas no seu devido lugar, precisamente porque elas se eclipsam umas às outras –, é o serem rivais perante o meu olhar, precisamente porque cada uma está no seu lugar.

People would be very unhappy if they were to look closely at what lies beneath the words they use so readily. This is why they prefer, for the most part, not to do so.

Objects form a system in which one object cannot appear without concealing others.

The universe is defined not by what one sees, what one says, but precisely by what one does not see, precisely what one does not say: by the difference between the one and the other.

The invisible is a hollow in the visible, a fold in passivity, not pure production.

Things are only half - opened before us, unveiled and hidden.

Since time immemorial any woman with half a brain has known that in the pursuit of romance she must hide it

Ich bin nicht Stiller!

Die beste und sicherste Tarnung ist immer noch die blanke und nackte Wahrheit. Komischerweise die glaubt niemand.

All men have crimes, and most of them are hidden.

You know how I conceal my pain talk so much and laugh a lot"

Krijemo ljubav, tako je i ugušimo. Šteta.

Što ima više svetih skloništa iza kojih se ljudi kriju, sve je više prostora za ljudsko zlo. ?ovjek uvijek izmisli razlog izvan sebe, da bi se oslobodio odgovornosti i krivice.

People easily forget what they're not proud of.

If anyone considers this strange, or even unlikely, I can only say that the truth is something very strange, and we convince ourselves that it does not exist because we are ashamed of it, as we are of a leprous child, although in this manner the truth is not rendered less alive or less truthful. We usually beautify our thoughts and hide the vipers that slither within us. If we hide them, do they not exist?

Ljudima nije lako kad se otkrije njihova pokvarenost. - Ali ih to ne spre?ava da budu pokvareni. - A kakvi bi tek bili kad bi mogli biti sigurni da ?e njihova djelatnost ostati neotkrivena.

Sve se izmijeni kad padne tama. Za grijeh nije ostavljeno jedno odre?eno doba, ali je njegovo prirodno vrijeme no? (sad spavaju pametna mala i tupava velika djeca, i oni što stignu da svrše zlo za dana). I uvijek kad se ne vidi.

Ljudi lako zaboravljaju ono cime se ne ponose.

And so, perhaps, when I say I long to be a pane of glass, I am lying. I long for partial obscurity at the same time that I long for someone to know me.

In theory, I would like to lead a transparent life. I would like my life to be as clear as a new pane of glass, without anything shameful and no dark shadows. I would like that. But if I am completely honest, I have to acknowledge secrets too painful even to tell myself. There

The idea that something had been done to you seemed to implicate you, even though no one said it did, making your body—which usually lived in darkness beneath your clothing—suddenly live in light. Forever, if someone found out, you would be a person with a body that had been violated, breached. Also, forever you would be a person with a body that was visible and imaginable.

But maybe I cared too, because sometimes I found myself wondering about those things. I just didn't show it. It was high school; you didn't show things.

Then I thought maybe she did know but didn't want to look at it. Maybe she did know but there's all kinds of lies you tell yourself when you want to.